VOLKSWAGEN COUNTRY BUGGY COMMERCIAL FILMATO PUBBLICITARIO ORIGINALE
PUBBLICITA' COCA COLA DEL PERIODO COCA COLA PERIOD COMMERCIAL
Volkswagen never felt comfortable with the dune buggy vogue. use of new factory frames and engines was never allowed to the main buiders and they had to use scraped beetles. Probably the reason was that all those colourful custom cars were not according to the beetle soberty and reliability.
Volkswagen never produced a dune buggy itself too. The only car that was similar to a dune buggy idea is the "COUNTRY BUGGY", produced by Volkswagen Australasia Ltd. in australian Vw factory, placed in Clayton.
The country buggy was an idea of the managing director of Volkswagen Australia, Rudi Herzmer realized by the engineer named Cyril Harcourt
The car was based on a australian built wv chassis with a type 2 reduction boxes rear axle.
Built in pressed steel the final weight was 1706 lbs (774 kg)
exhaust was designed to exit over the rear bumper for mud, water and to increase clearence .
approach angle was a good 51°
departure angle was 32°
ground clearance was 9.2'
engine was the good 1192
production started in 1967 and ended in 1969 with about 2000 cars built.
Here is a detailed story from Bil Moore
http://members.netro.com.au/~vwcc/cb.htm
THE COUNTRY BUGGY was exported to several pacific markets. this is philippines commercial